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Smoked fish is a delicacy in Cameroon (Photo: Duncan Macqueen/IIED)
Protecting Cameroon's forests: a fishy business?
… the country's mangroves and improve local livelihoods.  OPED's conservation efforts include exploring alternative fish smoking … fish is sold.  Growing even more success OPED recognised that these community business groups had the potential not only to conserve … to develop more sustainable and equitable livelihoods from community forests in the Congo Basin.  Last week, we visited the fish …
Insight, 28 July 2017
Five ways to boost stocks of the Bay of Bengal’s beloved hilsa fish
… to try this approach of providing people with incentives to encourage conservation, and especially not for fisheries." Once abundant in the … way to do this would be to channel a portion of export taxes into a conservation trust fund. Identify how fisher communities would prefer to …
News, 28 November 2013
The Kob population in Uganda is being depleted by poaching, pictured in Queen Elizabeth National Park (Photo: Roger Day Photography)
Building capacity for pro-poor responses to wildlife crime in Uganda
… issue worldwide, with devastating consequences for both biodiversity conservation and poverty alleviation. International wildlife crime can … the role of effective incentives in achieving sustainable use for conservation and local development. The ultimate project goal was to … project was used in a new project on ' Park action plans: increasing community engagement in tackling wildlife crime '. …
Project, 22 July 2014
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Resource Tenure and Power Relations in Community Wildlife Contexts: The case of the Mkambati area on the wild coast of South Africa
… which hinges around eco-tourism, and with a significant component of community participation, has been proposed. While there is as yet, no … through illegal use rather than structured participation in conservation based enterprises.~Community wildlife projects must be contextualized within broader … Resource Tenure and Power Relations in Community Wildlife Contexts: The case of the Mkambati area on the wild …
Publication, 01 January 2000
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Growing Forest Partnerships briefing: Empowering communities through forest partnerships
… help raise access to forest finance for sustainable management and conservation. They can enable forest-users to raise their voices and …
Publication, 01 January 2011
The Las Trancas Valley in Chile, November 2014 (Photo: UICN / Marcelo Vildósola Garrigó)
EbA Evidence and Policy: Chile
… sustainable development. IIED, the  International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)  and the  UN Environment World … Infrastructure and Communities (EPIC) project aimed to build community resilience by implementing nature-based solutions to disaster … 2017 We presented results from the research framework in the EbA Community of Practice, which was held in Thailand ('Assessing EbA …
Project, 21 February 2018
Screengrab of a map of indigenous peoples’ territories in the Peruvian Amazon (Image: IBC Peru)
Creating a global 'land rights family': from knowledge to action
… Namati and IIED – was launched with an eight-day event in Kenya. The Community Land Initiative seeks to facilitate an international exchange of knowledge on community-level work to enhance land rights. To avoid replicating the … the year title is awarded and the year afterward." At a time when conservation groups are regularly accused of violating the rights of …
Insight, 14 March 2018
A giraffe takes stock at Kenya's Ol Pejeta Conservancy, where Social Assessment of Protective Area fieldwork starts next week (Photo: www.kicheche.com via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Time for a new look at social impacts of protected areas
… One of the oldest tools in the conservation box — the protected area — has a chequered history as far … some of the poorest people who live nearby. The global conservation community began to take this seriously in 2003 at the World Parks … It is primarily aimed at protected area managers — state, private or community — enabling them to improve both policy and practice.  It will …
Insight, 11 March 2014
Two women sitting in a field
No room for manoeuvre: debt prevents investing in the future
… their different levels of assets and resources.  Even within the same community, there are large variations in farm and family size, which … There have been a number of government and NGO programmes promoting conservation agriculture (CA) – an approach that aims to improve soil … improvement from manure. Build on and improve existing approaches to community-based grain storage to help farmers obtain a better price for …
Article, 26 April 2020
An elderly woman in a field holds crops in the air with both hands
Indigenous food systems, biocultural heritage and agricultural resilience
… from agricultural modernisation, top-down development schemes, and conservation initiatives that impose restrictions on harvesting. The … coastal Kenya. The new research will be designed to support ongoing, community-led processes to establish biocultural heritage territories in …
Project, 06 April 2020